82 -.. . *' \,'Í - II ! . t.. '" I I j Vacation on an island the travel writers haven't discovered yet. If you're looking for a private vacation island, come to Bonaire in the Dutch Caribbean. Here you'll discover Harbour Village, an inti- mate, luxury resort where the guest rooms are magnificent. Also, gour- met dining under the stars, a palm- studded beach, charter fishing and sailing boats, wonderful diving and the friendliest staff In the islands. See your travel agent or call toll- free (800) 424-0004 r-= lIARBOUR VILLAGE Animal Bracelets Gold plated horse and ram heads atop a twIst of black graphite strands Also avail- able wIth lion heads $150 Amex VIsa, MC ; .." ...... .. -:. ?-. , " actual '. size STREY D 635 MadIson Ave New York NY1 0022. 212-758-0174 j Fax. 212-832.-1509 GREECE __ for the academIcally onented ..).. JJ the mqUlring mmd-the adventurous spirit - SYMPOSIUM at the EUROPEAN CULTURAL CENTRE OF DELPHI Drama. Poetry. Art . Dance Athens Eleusls Naupllon Connth Mycenae Epldaurus, Olympia and CRETE 21 days July/August 1993 Come If you qualify The InstItute of Aegean World StudIes (a non-profit organization) 1.718.921.7414 day 1.718.996.9574 evenmg AROUND CITY HALL HIGH WINDS IN BROOKLYN by Andy Logan O F course, the eighties-glitzy, heedless, fabulous-dealmalung, or prudent, God-and-tradition- revering, according to one's social phi- losophy or party registration-didn't end the moment the third number In the name of the year shifted from an eight to a nine. It is probable that many future historians will associate the end of the eighties with last month's elec- tion of a Demo- cratic Presiden t, whose urgent calls for change during the campaign re- sulted in the can- cellation of the twelve-year Reagan- Bush lease on the Oval Office. In this city, the elec- tion was followed by no predictions of political upheaval. No matter which party is in charge of the executive branch in Washington, New York has been- with few lapses-a Democratic town. Only three men have been elected its mayor on the Republican line in this century, the most recent being John Lindsay, in 1965. It may have been years of frustration with New York politics which encouraged the G.O.P. view that Democrats are a truly alien crew, and caused the chairman of the Republican National Committee, Rich Bond, who until recently was a resident of this state, to say at the start of last summer's G.O.P. Convention, in Houston, 'We are America. These other people are not Am . " enca. Besides the Washington cast changes, New Yorkers had another reminder that an era was over. For the last decade, front pages here (and not only those of the tabloids), supplemented by the tele- vision evening news, dwelt so routinely on such local celebrities as George Steinbrenner, John Gotti, Mike Tyson, Donald Trump, Bess Myerson, Imelda Marcos, John Cardinal O'Connor, Ivan .....-- '- r (I · -, . 1 1 1 / ' 1 1 ) } 11:/1 I j III 'ï'/I',)' , ", I- II i I J ' 1,"/\ I \ I I I r , . r \ IB 1\ :. I'''''', I Boesky, and the Reverend AI Sharpton that an unwary visitor glancing at the headlines could get the impression that hardly more than a handful of people lived in the nation's largest city. The preoccupation with these super- headliners was not only local: their names were in large type allover the country and sometimes the world. There's little ques- J'I II tion, for example, ,t that the face of the Reverend Al is more easily iden- tifiable in Dublin, '" -It. say, than that of David Dinkins, the first black mayor of this city. Some people would argue that so much news- print devoted to New York celebri- ties is not inap- propriate considering all the space given to the latest on the Grimaldis, some- times referred to in reports as the royal family of Monaco-a principality that, as the reports do not mention, is half the size of Central Park. The latest on the Grimaldis con- tinues to get the big-headline treatment, but anyone who looked at the front pages in recent months would have no- ticed at once that most of the eighties superheadliners had had their places taken by nineties news stars: Woody and Mia, of course; Amy Fisher; and Sol Wachtler, the formerly highly respected chief judge of the Court of Appeals, the state's highest court, who is now under a form of house arrest and charged with committing crimes in the course of a se- cret life so sordid that one of his stunned former colleagues said he would have found more credible the revelation that Mother Teresa was a serial killer. In a demonstration of New York upward- and downward-mobility, after Dinkins mentioned that he had known and ad- mired the Judge for forty years, it turned out that his mother had been a maid in u j ø It lli I r i! - 'I ,I. ,/111:\ ,Ii IJ I:} f 1 1 'II ) ! -- ..... t ! - 7